Activities of notaries
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Filed accounts
NACE 69102 · financial year 2025 · 1,770 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 17.0% | 17.3% | 17.4% | 20.5% | 22.8% | 22.1% |
| Median net result | €158,422 | €196,550 | €179,362 | €146,694 | €133,424 | €174,183 |
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Spread across the country
by region and province · 2,116 of 2,260 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 69 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 69102 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 Koninklijke Federatie van het Belgisch NotariaatBrussels 202 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 INDEKEU - de CRAYENCOURBrussels 74.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 Berquin NotarissenBrussels 62.7 FTEfinancial year 2024
- 4 Celis & LiesseAntwerp 43.2 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 NOTURATurnhout 36.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 865 companies- 216 Notaries' employees 852
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 151
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 8
- 201 Independent retail 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 69: Legal and accounting
Related activities
3 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activities of lawyers69101 | 22,321 | 2,262 | 16 | 2,016 |
| Other legal services69109 | 2,755 | 321 | 7 | 1,071 |
| Activities of bailiffs69103 | 1,018 | 65 | 0 | 1,634 |
Bankruptcies per year in division 69
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 44 | 32 | 26 | 94 | 98 | 73 | 55 | 66 | 72 | 68 | 79 | 62 |
| Jobs lost | 58 | 55 | 33 | 121 | 134 | 113 | 63 | 122 | 94 | 98 | 137 | 77 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 69
2,592 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €65,300 | €51,500 to €78,800 | 2,008 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €71,500 | €60,100 to €82,100 | 534 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €72,000 | €65,100 to €79,700 | 39 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 69Measured nationally: Of 108,651 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).
This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 10 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.
18 of the 26,969 companies in NACE division 69 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Luxembourg (5), Netherlands (5) and France (4). Together they employ 166 of the division's 27,617 FTE: 0.6%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €31.7m awarded
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €1.4m paid
- Federal transfers 46.4m amount as published
- EU budget €148.3m attributed share
- EU research €17.6m EU contribution
Insights on Activities of notaries
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €174,183 is above Belgium's €16,492. Return on equity of 65.7% is above Belgium's 15.9%. 0.8% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. 6.4% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 5.0 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 69% of the 87 NACE divisions. Wallonia holds 28.7% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. 16.0% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 418 of the 6,697 FTE: 6.2%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 17.0% in financial year 2020 to 22.1% in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 10-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 69102 exists.
The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,421 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,557 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.